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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Here is a band no one seems to have ever heard of. I used to have this album on a tape but lost it a long time ago. I only have these first two songs from the album. Has anyone got it. I don't want to own the LP but some nice mp3s would be great.

The main person in the band was Geoff Freeman who in the early 1980s played guitar in RICHARD HELL's band and can be heard on some tracks on the Time CD. The drummer was Vinnie Signorelli who was later famous with the Unsane. The band released one 12"ep and two albums. On the 12"ep Steve Garvey from the BUZZCOCKS played bass. On the albums they had different bass players including Russell Berke who was at one time in Certain General.

The band were based out of New York City but were active in Germany and all their records were released in that country.

I've never heard the second album and would like to if anyone has it. It doesn't seem any of their records were re-released on CD.

**Note: after I posted this a long time friend in Germany emailed to say he had the first two records and would digitize them for me. Recently, he found the 2nd LP in a record shop and has also kindly digitized that for me. Here I upload the whole set for all who are interested.

High Mass On The High Frontier LP (1984)
01. High Frontier
02. Whistling Death
03. Death Dance
04. Partly Cloudy And Greezy
05. Polish Worker
06. We Are Mad And We Are Taking No Shit
07. Mainline
08. Don't Think Night Into Day
09. Turning Night Into Day
10. Knock Knock Knock
11. Mad Dog
12. High Mass On The High Frontier

Set Fire To Your Self (1985)
01. See Right Through Me
02. Sugarloo
03. Three Women
04. Set Fire To Your Self
05. When You Came
06. New Boy
07. Money, Fame And Power
08. Lola Loves Chocolate
09. Fly Away
10. Down In The Boondocks

The TurboHydramatics were living in west-Berlin for 1 or 2 years around 1984/85. I saw them like 3 or 4 times in that period. They also hung out at the infamous Risiko bar, and were befriended with the Einstürzende Neubauten + Nick Cave circles at that time. TurboHydramatics were a great liveband who played live also the "speeded up" Minor Threat version of the classic song "Stepping Stone"

About Me

I started collecting and trading live recordings and unreleased demos on cassette tape in 1981. Over the years I've traded with many people from around the world and have built an interesting collection. In the late 1990s and 00s I traded CD-Rs with other collectors. With this blog my intention is to post these rare demos and unreleased live recordings plus band interviews, zine scans, flyers and photos that I have also collected. Since the beginning of the KBD revolution I have been tempted to become a serious vinyl bootlegger. However, since none of these recordings are mine to sell and all of it I got for nothing, I've decided this blog is really the best way to get the music to interested people totally free. If you like what I am doing please leave comments and let me know. I will post my lists so anyone can request anything I have. Also, I have many 70s and 80s Punk records in mp3 format and don't mind posting some of them as long as they haven't been re-released on vinyl or CD.

Noise Addiction

Noise is an addiction that is shared by many and here I will share the rare noise that I like best - Punk, Mod, Power Pop, New Wave, Garage, Rockabilly and anything else I happen to like.

P.S. If [from cassette] appears behind and show or demo that means I transferred that show from a cassette tape that is in my own collection.

Please keep in mind that my interested in trading these days is limited. I am interested in trading for things that I want for the blog but I have no interest in just sending out CDs to people because they don't like the mp3 format. There's just too much work and bother in that.